National GeographicJuly 11, 2016When wildlife officers with California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife raided two houses in the Sacramento area earlier this year, they found a live sturgeon gasping for breath, barely alive, on the floor in the garage. Read more...

bioGraphicJune 21, 2016In the harsh, hot soda lakes of East Africa, flamingos thrive, and now scientists are beginning to understand how these birds live where other species die. Read more...​Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Steve Garvie (CC BY 2.0)

SlateMay 19, 2016Scientists have developed a tiny, insect-sized drone that can stop, take a break, then take off again. Read more...Photo credit: Credit: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

SlateMay 18, 2016The zookeepers weren’t just toying with these creatures. Games like these are a key part of the zoo’s animal enrichment program, designed to keep their captive animals physically and mentally active.Read more...Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Tambako the Jaguar(CC BY 2.0)

NatureApril 18, 2016A highly contagious and deadly animal brain disorder has been detected in Europe for the first time. Scientists are now warning that the single case found in a wild reindeer might represent an unrecognized, widespread infection. Read more...Photo Credit: Flickr/Brian Gatwicke (CC-BY-2.0)

National GeographicApril 1, 2016In a video that went viral last week, a bearded, plaid-wearing man named Robert Mahar earnestly describes how to make a banana-kiwi hybrid by squishing together chunks of the two fruits, burying them in soil, watering them, and waiting. But that's really not how hybridization works. Read more...Photo Credit: Public Domain

National GeographicMarch 19, 2016We all learn about the birds and the bees when we’re children—but it turns out the birds can be a little confusing. Especially when they unexpectedly hatch from breakfast foods. Read more...Photo Credit: Public Domain

Nature Medicine​March 3, 2016 As public health officials scramble to decide what measures to implement to curb the spread of Zika, scientists have begun to accelerate their efforts to model the effects of the virus in cell lines and animals. Read more...Photo credit: Pubic Domain

SlateFEBRUARY 24, 2016It’s not every day that a baby gorilla is born in captivity—and it’s even rarer for that baby gorilla to be born by cesarean section. Read more...Photo Credit: Bristol Zoo Gardens

NatureFEBRUARY 12, 2016Something that many scientists experience, but few discuss, became a popular topic online this week: the challenges of menstruating while doing fieldwork. Many scientists were happy to see a sometimes-taboo topic covered so candidly. Read more...​Photo Credit: Public Domain

SlateFEBRUARY 9, 2016The cockroach’s incredible resistance to flattening by shoes, books, bottoms of frying pans, and pressurized plungers (seriously, watch the video above!) may suck for those of us who want them gone from our kitchens, but it’s great news for the scientists who used these little bugs as models for new compressible rescue robots. Read more...Photo Credit: Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings, courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley.

SlateFEBRUARY 5, 2016The only known wild jaguar in the United States made a rare, unwitting appearance in front of the cameras last fall, and he’s one good-looking cat. The Center for Biological Diversity released the video on Wednesday. Read more...Photo Credit: Conservation CATalyst and Center for Biological Diversity

National GeographicDECEMBER 9, 2015Stonehenge’s construction crew came together from across Britain for some epic barbecues, a feat of social organization millennia before mobile phones made it easy for people to connect. Read more...Photo Credit: Flickr/Johanna van de Woestijne

NatureDECEMBER 17, 2015​The hottest papers of 2015 covered topics ranging from cancer risk and autism to mass extinctions and reproducibility in science, according to Altmetric. Nature rounds up a few of the papers on the list. Read more...​Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Petr Stefek

​National GeographicDECEMBER 1, 2015Jonathan Brill, founder of Special Projects Agency, an innovation and design consulting firm based in Sausalito, California, is trying to shake up culinary traditions by creating a program that combines unexpected flavors based on their chemical makeups. Read more...Photo Credit: Matthew Ryder and Jamie Simpson, with permission

National Geographic​NOVEMBER 5, 2015What’s it like to spend hours in Earth’s orbit, when your spacesuit is the only thing between you and a frigid vacuum? Astronaut Douglas Wheelock describes the experience.Read More...Photo Credit: NASA

National GeographicOCTOBER 1, 2015Cheese turns out to be a miniature barnyard, teeming with microorganisms. So cheese is ripe for investigations into how an environment created by humans can shape microbial genes. Read more...Photo Credit: Tatiana Giraud

National GeographicSEPTEMBER 22, 2015​It comes twice a year and is related to the change in seasons, but a lot of people don't understand this celestial alignment.Read more...Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ATSZ56 (public domain)

National Geographic AUGUST 04, 2015For starters, old females are tougher than young males, according to a new study on these little-known mammals.Read more...Photo Credit: Merlin Tuttle/http://www.merlintuttle.com/

National Geographic PUBLISHED AUGUST 01, 2015After a trophy hunter killed one of Africa’s most famous lions, interest in conservation soared.Read more...Photo Credit: HamishPaget-Brown/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

National Geographic PUBLISHED JULY 31, 2015The United Nations released projections of global population growth over the coming century. In the year 2100, the world’s demographics will look very different from today’s.Read More...Photo Credit: NASA

National Geographic PUBLISHED JULY 28, 2015New research suggests that there may have been not one but two separate evolutions of African Pygmies.Read more...Photo Credit: Kwamikagami/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

NOVA NextMAY 20, 2015There’s a revolution afoot in medicine. It has been simmering below the surface for the last decade or so, but like many revolutions, you won’t really take notice until it’s all but over.Read more...Photo credit: Tom Page/Flickr (CC BY-SA)

In Once-Mysterious Epigenome, Scientists Find What Turns Genes On

NOVA NextFEBRUARY 19, 2015How cells develop vastly different functions using the same genetic instructional text has remained largely a mystery. As of yesterday, it became a bit less mysterious. Read more...Photo Credit: ynse / Wikimedia Commons

﻿NOVA NextPUBLISHED January 23, 2015A ruptured oil pipeline leaked up to 40,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River in Montana, contaminating the drinking water for the nearby town of Glendive.Read more...Photo credit: Environmental Protection Agency/epa.gov

NOVA NextPUBLISHED January 20, 2015Diapers are revolutionizing how scientists examine brains under the microscope by expanding the brain cells themselves, making them easier to see.Read more...Boyden Lab @ MIT, Nick Moore and Julie Pryor

NOVA NextPUBLISHED January 8, 2015Sometime in the last several months, a steel mill in an undisclosed location in Germany lost control of its blast furnace.Read more...Photo credit: Třinecké železárny/Wikimedia Commons

NOVA NextPUBLISHED January 6, 2015Ever close your eyes and have an image burned into your retina? Our brains may do the same thing after we die.Read more...Photo credit: Frances S. Chance/Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI/Sandia National Laboratory

NOVA NextPUBLISHED November 24, 2014A new paint-on bandage that can map the oxygen levels in injuries could help doctors make important clinical decisions from when to amputate limbs, to how much charred flesh to remove from a burn. Read more...Photo Credit: Egelberg / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

NOVA NextPUBLISHED October 3, 2014With 99% of California’s agricultural lands ravaged by drought, some farmers in the state are considering an alternative to freshwater: treated sewage.Read more...Photo credit: swong95765/Flickr (CC BY)